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..The 2022 SIPP indicates that 54 percent of households headed by immigrants — naturalized citizens, legal residents, and illegal immigrants — used one or more major welfare program. This compares to 39 percent for U.S.-born households.
The rate is 59 percent for non-citizen households (e.g. green card holders and illegal immigrants).
Compared to households headed by the U.S.-born, immigrant-headed households have especially high use of food programs (36 percent vs. 25 percent for the U.S.-born), Medicaid (37 percent vs. 25 percent for the U.S.-born), and the Earned Income Tax Credit (16 percent vs. 12 percent for the U.S.-born).
Our best estimate is that 59 percent of households headed by illegal immigrants, also called the undocumented, use at least one major program. We have no evidence this is due to fraud. Among legal immigrants we estimate the rate is 52 percent...
..Most new legal immigrants are barred from most programs, as are illegal immigrants, but this has a modest impact primarily because: 1) Immigrants can receive benefits on behalf of U.S.-born children; 2) the bar does not apply to all programs, nor does it apply to non-citizen children in some cases; 3) most legal immigrants have lived here long enough to qualify for welfare; 4) some states provide welfare to otherwise ineligible immigrants on their own; 5) by naturalizing, immigrants gain full welfare eligibility....
the poorest Americans those disabled on SSI get 914 a month and sometimes wait years for a housing voucher or housing. I wonder how many of these "immigrants" get more and if they also have to wait years for some type of public housing.....
the poorest Americans those disabled on SSI get 914 a month and sometimes wait years for a housing voucher or housing. I wonder how many of these "immigrants" get more and if they also have to wait years for some type of public housing.....
They are being put up in shelters and hotels.
Americans are being displaced in favor of the illegals.
and we are lied to time and time again when they claim they’re not getting welfare.
bears repeating.
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